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Belgeo, 2013 According to the decennial American Census, electoral districts are redrawn at each jurisdictional scale, through the principle of “one man, one vote”.
Emilie Bonnet
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Mathematics of Nested Districts: The Case of Alaska
Statistics and Public Policy, 2020 In eight states, a “nesting rule” requires that each state Senate district be exactly composed of two adjacent state House districts. In this article, we investigate the potential impacts of these nesting rules with a focus on Alaska, where Republicans ...
Sophia Caldera +4 more
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of sustained demographic contraction across the Asia‐Pacific, the developmental state (DS) paradigm, long premised on growth, faces profound challenges. While existing research on shrinking regions focuses on urban planning, little attention has been paid to how the state restructures its spatial power under contraction ...
Li Mingfeng
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We test whether Singapore's 2025 electoral redistricting produced a statistically anomalous allocation of competitively contested territory. Using a hypergeometric permutation test, we examine the 114 subzones that changed constituency between the 2020 ...
Goh Cheng Arn David
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From New Order to Reformasi: Indonesian Subnational Politics in the Post-New Order Era1
Jurnal Hubungan Internasional, 2015 Direct local election in Indonesia has been run since the middle of 2005. It is bringing some changes, especially in political reformation. Changed election mechanism to direct election done by the society in the region.
Leo Agustino, Mohammad Agus Yusoff
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Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 7, October 2026.ABSTRACT The integration of immigrants and their descendants has long been central to European and OECD policy agendas, with educational attainment considered a key indicator of integration success. Yet, persistent native‐immigrant gaps in educational attainment remain evident, including in the Nordic countries.
Andreas Lindegaard Jakobsen +1 more
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Beyond the Border Wars: Representation, Scale, and Multi‐Member Districts
Geographical Analysis, Volume 58, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT Proposed redistricting reforms often focus on fixing gerrymandered maps or restructuring elections to boost proportionality. Recent work shows that, averaged across all 50 states, multi‐member districts paired with proportional ranked‐choice voting can deliver near‐proportional outcomes while curbing the gains available to a partisan map ...
Christopher S. Fowler, Linda L. Fowler
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Electorate redistricting for a single-member district plurality, two-ballot voting system: Taiwan’s electoral reform [PDF]
Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 2014 In this study, we formulated a mathematical model for electorate demarcation in line with Taiwan’s electoral reforms, minimizing legislative seats for the main opposition party in Taipei City.
Lin Pei-Chun, Cheng Chiu Edwin Tai
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Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Activity in Africa
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 88, Issue 5, Page 1203-1218, October 2026.ABSTRACT Using GIS methods, we identify territories in Africa affected by subnational border reforms between 1992 and 2013. Descriptive statistics reveal that these territories differed from other African regions across several key dimensions. For example, these territories were more populous and exhibited greater ethnic diversity.
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sebastian Blesse
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AERA Open, 2022 School rezoning, or redistricting, is the process by which school boards draw and redraw school attendance boundaries. These boundaries are key drivers of racial and economic school segregation but can also work to ameliorate it.
Andrene J. Castro +3 more
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